Lightning Is the Only Way

The atmosphere intensified again as the Sect Master of the Heavenly Divine Sect refused to comply in the investigation.

The Ancestor of the Twilight Council narrowed his eyes as he glared at the Sect Master of the Heavenly Divine Sect. "Weaker than you?"

The Sect Master didn't even look at him. "Yes," he answered.

The Ancestor waited for further clarification, but nothing came, resulting in him becoming quite angry.

"So, you admit that you were the one?" the Ancestor asked with a threatening tone.

"Don't try to change the topic with baseless accusations," the Sect Master said calmly. "You know that your threat is empty and that you don't believe me."

Then, the Sect Master looked at the Ancestor again. "If you want to go to war with the Heavenly Divine Sect, you don't need to make grand allegations."

"Just attack."

The others looked with unease at the exchange.

Dealing with the Sect Master of the Heavenly Divine Sect was easy and difficult at the same time.

As long as one was honest and talked openly with the Sect Master, the Sect Master would give them direct answers.

However, if one tried to skirt the rules or honesty, they would find the Sect Master to be very uncooperative.

"Everyone else has already sworn by the Heavens, and you are the only remaining person that hasn't done so," the Sect Master of the Twilight Council said with a strict but calming voice. "It is logical for us to suspect you."

"Logical," the Sect Master of the Heavenly Divine Sect repeated with a scoff. "You're only saying that it's logical so that you can justify to yourself to put me into life-threatening danger by swearing upon Heaven."

"You don't believe that I've done it because you know exactly that I wouldn't use such underhanded tactics. Yet, you want me to swear upon the Heavens regardless, even though you're already certain that I didn't do it."

"Is this some kind of political powerplay?" he asked.

It had been quite a while since the two leaders of the Twilight Council felt that frustrated with someone.

Everyone had made a small sacrifice to show their support and unity. As one entity, they had already paid their proverbial taxes, but the Sect Master of the Heavenly Divine Sect refused to pay anything, saying that he hadn't supported this decision.

If a majority agreed, one should follow the rules of the majority. Otherwise, things wouldn't work out, and all sides would be unhappy.

The Ancestor wanted to say something, but the Sect Master of the Twilight Council stopped him with an urging glance.

The two of them looked at each other for a while as they exchanged voice transmissions.

The Ancestor had wanted to declare that morality was on his side and that the Sect Master of the Heavenly Divine Sect had to comply with their orders. If he didn't, they would declare war on his Sect.

However, the Sect Master of the Twilight Council had stopped him.

Why?

Because every single person that had ever threatened the Sect Master of the Heavenly Divine Sect had died.

A threat was a show of enmity, which automatically made the threatening person into an enemy in the Sect Master's eyes.

So, why should he hold himself back if the other person was already his enemy?

Enemies deserved to die, and he would simply kill them.

If the Ancestor of the Twilight Council decided to threaten the Sect Master of the Heavenly Divine Sect, the Sect Master would directly attack the two leaders of the Twilight Council with the intent to kill.

Council were certain that they could win against him, but it would be risky. On top of that, even

the Heavenly Divine Sect

they wanted their disciples to get some tempering. They didn't exactly care for the resources

Why?

they had the most territory out of all of them, and

Sects tried to survive and tried to own enough territory to create more powerful disciples, but the Heavenly Divine Sect only viewed these conflicts as an exercise or a

Sect could fight multiple Sect Masters alone, and the Ancestor

to destroy the Heavenly

least three different Sects would need to go all out, risking their lives. However, that would still leave a chance of failure. To be sure, one

the Lightning Peak Sect would need to get involved. She was the only member of the

both methods were theoretically possible

were they supposed to do

the death or take a

wasn't even

the death of our Vice-Sect Master?" the Sect Master

others looked at the exchange

Twilight Council was helpless in front of the Sect

the Heavenly Divine Sect looked calmly

"Yes."

as if nothing of note had

Yes?

Wait, he knew?

the Twilight

so that he could say that the Sect Master of the Heavenly Divine Sect had helped them in their

hadn't expected that the Sect Master would

asked in surprise.

tell you?" the

and

lose

Sect Master had only come to fame after the Ancestor had already

was too used to the normal kinds of people, which almost resulted in him committing

Council had followed the story of the

for the information?" the Sect Master of

Life Fruits of my choosing,"

to object, but his Sect Master stopped him again with an

both fortunate that the Ancestor trusted his

will bring

Sect Master of the

surprised that you didn't guess it yourselves. It's

others grimaced when they heard that

he calling

the most from sowing chaos among us? Who benefitted the most from keeping the fight going until

Benefit?

looked at

of them would benefit. After all, it was risky, but

them would

of the Twilight Council was a

scoffed. "You are so used to being

that everyone that isn't a level nine Divine God can't do anything against you, and you believe that they will never

than us aren't necessarily stupider. If you foresaw how something would go, they would probably

if they are a never-before-seen genius in

Never-before-seen genius?

a second, everyone

representative of the Mortal Sect suddenly shouted as